Directing Books
I have included only a few of the books Amazon.com has available on Directing. These books are the ones I personally recommend. If you wish to view or purchase a book, click on the Book Title below and you will be taken to Amazon.com to view the book.
My “You Must Have These in Your Library” List
- Directing Actors: Creating Memorable Performances for Film and Television – Judith Weston
- Directing Feature Films – Mark Travis
- The Working Director: How To Arrive, Thrive, and Survive in the Director’s Chair -
Charles Wilkinson - Thinking Like a Director – Michael Bloom
- Notes On Directing – Frank Hauser and Russell Reich
- Film Directing Shot by Shot: Visualizing from Concept to Screen – Steven D. Katz
- Film Directing, Cinematic Motion: A Workshop for Staging Scenes – Steven D. Katz
- The Director’s Journey: The Creative Collaboration Between Directors, Writers and Actors – Mark W. Travis
- The Filmmaker’s Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide for the Digital Age – Steven Ascher, Edward Pincus, Carol Keller
- Hitchcock’s Notebooks: An Authorized and Illustrated Look Inside the Creative Mind of Alfred Hitchcock – Dan Auiler
My “You Can’t Go Wrong With These” List
- Directors in Rehearsal: A Hidden World – Susan Letzler Cole
- Directing the Action: Acting and Directing in the Contemporary Theatre – Charles Marowitz, Peter Brock
- Sense of Direction: Some Observations on the Art of Directing – William Ball
- Script Analysis for Actors, Directors, and Designers – James Michael Thomas
- Film Production: The Complete Uncensored Guide to Filmmaking – Greg Merritt
- Directing: Film Techniques and Aesthetics – Michael P. Rabiger
- On Directing – by Harold Clurman
- Directing the Film: Film Directors on Their Art – Eric Sherman
- Actors Turned Directors: On Eliciting the Best Performance from an Actor and Other Secrets of Successful Directing – Jon Stevens
- The Film Director: Updated for Today’s Filmmaker, the Classic, Practical Reference to Motion Picture and Television Techniques – Richard L. Bare, James Garner, Robert Wise
- Directing for Television: Conversations With American TV Directors – Brian Geoffrey Rose
- On Screen Directing – Edward Dmytryk
- On Directing Film – David Mamet
- Directing Single Camera Drama – Mike Crisp
- Film Production: The Complete Uncensored Guide to Filmmaking – Greg Merritt
My “Books on Directors” List
- Once Upon a Time: The Films of Sergio Leone – Robert Cumbow
- Our Films Their Films – Satyajit Ray
- The Films of Carol Reed – Robert F. Moss
- Orson Welles: A Critical View – Andre Bazin, Francois Truffaut
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stiding mba. to be a move director